Pariyaram Medical College: A journey of controversies

Finally, the party that opposed the self-financing colleges tooth and nail ended up capturing the director board of the hospital in 2007.

TNN | Feb 27, 2014, 12.51 AM IST

KANNUR: When the government decided to takeover Pariyaram Medical College, the first self-financing medical college under the co-operative sector in the country, it finally ended a controversy that has troubled the state for years.

Established in March 1993 by CMP founder M V Raghavan, in the land gifted by industrialist Samuel Aaron for establishing a T B sanatorium in the government sector,

the multi-specialty medical college had invited the wrath of the CPM, which even took out a violent protest march against Raghavan on November 25, 1994, then minister for cooperation, at a public function in Koothuparama and five CPM workers were killed in police firing.

Though the LDF government dismissed the director board of the Kerala State Cooperative Hospital Complex and Centre for Advanced Medical Services (KSCHC & CAMS), which controls the Pariyaram Medical College and took it over in 1997, it was given back to the director board in 2000.

Finally, the party that opposed the self-financing colleges tooth and nail ended up capturing the director board of the hospital in 2007.

Ever since the CPM took over the control of the establishment, there were allegations that lots of illegal appointments were made in the hospital.

The staff strength during 1994-2007 was just 950 whereas 1,157 staffers were additionally appointed after the CPM's governing body took over according to sources.

The issue of illegal appointment was also an issue mentioned by the district collector in the report of the asset and liability of the institution, which had also referred to the revenue land it illegally possessed.

Now, with the government deciding to take over the hospital, the CPM will demand that all the staff there should be absorbed in government service, which might cause serious headache to the government. Though the CPM says that it is not opposed to the government takeover, the party leadership is not happy either, if the words of M V Jayarajan, chairman of Pariyaram Medical College, is an indication.

"There is no clarity about the announcement of takeover of the institution, but if the plan is to run it fully under government, like the Kozhikode Medical College, we have no objection," he said. "However, it the government wants to satisfy the interests of the local Congress leaders and give the administration of the medical college to them, and then we will definitely oppose it."

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